KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leaders inside Kansas Metropolis and Jackson County have sights set on one other World Cup occasion hosted at Arrowhead Stadium.
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This week, Mayor Quinton Lucas launched an which creates formal metropolis permission for the town supervisor to signal a bunch metropolis settlement with FIFA for the 2031 Girls’s World Cup. It additionally exhibits FIFA, and the US Host Committee, that the town is dedicated to offering funding for the occasion in Kansas Metropolis.
Earlier this month, Mayor Lucas shared with FOX4 that “Kansas Metropolis will get the Girls’s World Cup in 2031.”
Jackson County Government Phil LeVota echoed the identical perception Friday.
“We simply confirmed the world that Arrowhead Stadium is not only the house of the Chiefs,” Government LeVota stated. “I’ve had conferences with the Mayor (and) Kathy Nelson with the Sports activities Fee. We’re transferring ahead with this. The appliance will probably be entering into and the very first thing you must establish is the place it will be. Arrowhead is a county-owned property, so we’re on-board with that. We’re collaborating with the town.”
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The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are set to depart Arrowhead in January of 2031.
“We’re going to get the Girls’s World Cup. We’re going to get the Rugby World Cup in 2031,” Government LeVota stated.
In , Jackson County’s Arrowhead Stadium is listed as a bunch web site. CPKC Stadium can also be listed as a secondary host location.
The additionally shares the qualities that make Kansas Metropolis host location. The doc lists that the town is within the coronary heart of the nation, has robust infrastructure, fan tradition and space growth.
It additionally shares Kansas Metropolis leads the best way with advancing ladies’s sport.
“Now we have the very first stadium designated to skilled ladies’s sports activities… proper right here. I’m very assured we’re going to get this for positive,” LeVota added.
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Mayor Lucas’ ordinance will probably be mentioned once more subsequent week.
“We simply confirmed the world what we will do,” LeVota added.
In November, we must always know which nations will host the 2031 Girls’s World Cup.
After, we’ll study if Kansas Metropolis is included.
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